LINGUAPHONERECORDSIndependent label: Linguaphone Institute Records is reported to
have been set up in 1901, by translator and teacher Jacques Roston, in order to
provide people with language courses that could be studied at home. They
proved immensely popular and the firm is still in business. Recordings
have always been an important part of Linguaphone courses, and have come in
every popular format, from the initial wax cylinders to the digital downloads of
today. There were many records to each course: the German singles
shown were two of a set of sixteen. Numbering seems to have consisted
of the initials of the language plus a number in the 00s. Each side of a
single had its own number, the first record in the German set being GER-60 /
GER-61. The style of the matrix number of the dark-blue-labelled record
suggests that Decca did the pressing, while the light blue one looks like an RCA
product. There are no dates on the labels; presumably Linguaphone records
were pressed and re-pressed throughout the vinyl era. However, some
courses, with 7" records to accompany them, first saw the light of day in the
1970s - a German course by Ingrid K. J. Williams (and others) was published in
1971, to give one example. Distributed By Linguaphone Records. Thanks to
Robert Lyons For The Info.